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ONE News:

1. ‘Undercover’ verdicts (Live cross, Jack Tame)
2. ‘Undercover’ verdicts – house involved (Melissa Stokes)
3. Labour Party reshuffle (Live cross, Francesca Mold)
4. More credit card expenditures (Jessica Mutch)
5. Soccer World Cup (Live cross, Craig Stanaway)

3 News:

1. Labour Party reshuffle next week (Rebecca Wright)
2. More credit card expenditures (Patrick Gower)
3. Solo teen sailer missing (Live cross, Amanda Gillies)
4. ‘Undercover’ verdicts (Rachel Morton)
5. Soccer World Cup

Commentary:

A very similar top 5 tonight from the two bulletins; with more emphasis on the undercover verdicts on ONE News.

Verdict:

Tie

Follow all the FIFA World Cup action from South Africa with Sky Television’s first iPhone application.

Watch daily video news bulletins and top player profiles, plus news articles, live scores, photo galleries and much more on the official SKY TV Road to South Africa application.

- Extensive daily video news coverage from South Africa
- Video features on the key players to watch out for from each team
- Team profiles for every country
- Extensive daily editorial news and match coverage throughout the tournament
- Live scores from every match
- Group standings and match fixtures
- Photo galleries updated every day

To access search for ‘SKY TV Road to South Africa’ or ‘Perform Group’ in the application store to download the application for just $2.59.

Brought to you by our partner Perform Group, available to all New Zealand iPhone users.

And don’t forget, you can watch every game from South Africa LIVE on SKY Sports!

Prime TV’s 50 Years of Television in New Zealand series starts this Sunday at 8:30pm.  It’s the show that will no doubt satisfy all the pundits who have been lampooning TVNZ’s unfortunate effort at reminiscing.

Along with this is Waikato University researcher Geoff Lealand’s website History of TV in NZ

Head over there and contribute your thoughts on the past 50 years for his research!

Australian network Channel Nine is feeling the heat after airing a promo for Rescue Special Ops which bears a striking resemblance to one created by Discovery Channel.

Nine’s teaser for their show is remarkably similar to Discovery’s promo which features survivalist star of Man Vs Wild Bear Grylls scaling a giant letter form which spells out Discovery. Nine’s version features the Rescue cast dealing with word Rescue in much the same way.

Several shots are identical in style to the original Discovery promo.

A spokeswoman for nine has said the Bear Grylls ad was used as “inspiration, but we featured our cast, of course. The Style suited the show.”

Source: News.com.au

Beauties have lined up in five centers already for their shot at the title of the second cycle of New Zealand’s Next Top Model.  This afternoon the auditions hit Wellington while Napier and Tauranga get their turns over the weekend.

WELLINGTON – FRIDAY, 11 JUNE 2010

Venue: Museum Hotel
Address: 90 Cable Street
Auditions open from 3pm – 8pm

NAPIER – SATURDAY, 12 JUNE 2010
Venue: The Crown Hotel
Address: Cnr Bridge and Hardinge Road, Ahuriri
Auditions open from 11am – 4pm

TAURANGA – SUNDAY, 13 JUNE 2010
Venue: The Sebel Trinity Wharf
Address: 51 Dive Crescent
Auditions open from 10am – 3pm

Don’t forget to grab a copy of the application form

Here are the contestants from this season of New Zealand’s Next Top Model

Top 14:
Aafreen Vaz
Amelia Akiko Nakagawa Gough
Courtenay Scott-Hill
Dakota Biddle
Danielle Hayes
Elza Jenkins
Estelle Curd
Eva Maringi Duncan
Holly Potton
Jamie Himiona
Lara Clare Kingsbeer
Lauren Bangs
Michaela Steenkamp
Nellie Rose Jenkins

Top 21:
Victoria 16 Christchurch
Elle 19, Blenheim
Danielle 19 Kawerau
Daisy 17 Rotorua
Elise 16 Mt Maunganui
Tara
Emily 16 Auckland
Jessica

Top 33:
Olivia 19 Dunedin
Sophie 16 Lower Hutt
Sarah 17 Auckland
Kezia 28 Lower Hutt
Sunny 19 Auckland
Casey 17 Auckland
Hazel 16 Auckland
Chloe 21 Auckland

Who were the three girls that didn’t get their names on the screen?

Despite last week’s TVNZ 50 Years special copping such a beating in the media following its screening, the network is planning another celebration special for late June.

TVNZ is piling together a celebration to mark the past 50 years of news and current affairs television in this country in spite of the fact last week’s show was savaged by television fans and critics.

Of course TVNZ are unfazed by the scorn, because the special managed to draw a massive audience and generated a bundle of advertising revenue for them.

The upcoming news special was initially vetoed by the network when planning the year’s celebrations but in the wake of the ratings hit last week TVNZ may well be simply looking to cash in a second time around.

The two-hour show is planned for 8.30pm on June 27, the same date and time Prime are marking their 50 Years celebrations.

So the Prime special, conceived more than a year ago, will now be going head to head with a TVNZ celebration knocked-up in a matter of weeks.

Prime programmer Karen Bieleski is unfazed however, laughing at TV One’s choice of time and calling it ridiculous.

Source: NZ Herald

World Cup fever is spreading around the globe and with the start of the quadrennial competition less than a day away, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’s” senior foreign sports correspondent, John Oliver, embarks on “World Cup 2010: Into Africa.”

This special, multi-part presentation from “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” begins with its first installment airing in New Zealand on Friday, June 11 at 10:30pm.

“The Daily Show” correspondent John Oliver and producer Tim Greenberg travel to Johannesburg, South Africa for a multi-part series entitled “World Cup 2010: Into Africa.” In the first piece, which airs this Friday, Oliver embeds with the U.S. Soccer team as they train for their highly-anticipated game against England.

Future segments will see Oliver sitting down with the acting South African ambassador, taking a look at the first “African” World Cup, examining the current state of race relations and, finally, celebrating the true spirit of the game.

“As a little boy, my only dream was to one day play for England in the World Cup. It seems that the closest I will ever get to that dream is to go to the World Cup and make fun of it,” said Oliver. “If these pieces result in anything less than soccer becoming the number one sport in America, I will deem them a total failure.”

“World Cup 2010: Into Africa” is the latest of “The Daily Show’s” international special reports. The Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning series previously traveled to Iran in 2009 (“Jason Jones in Iran: Behind the Veil”), China in 2008 (“Rob Riggle: Chasing the Dragon”) and Iraq in 2007 (“Operation Silent Thunder: ‘The Daily Show’ in Iraq”), among numerous other overseas destinations.

“The Daily Show” air weekdays at 10.30pm on Comedy Central NZ, SKY Channel 010.
http://www.comedycentral.co.nz/shows/the-daily-show

Most watched

1. One News: 655,020 (TV ONE, 6:00pm – 7:00pm)
2. Shortland Street: 557,620 (TV2, 7:00pm – 7:30pm)
3. Coronation Street: 536,940 (TV ONE, 7:30pm – 8:30pm)
4. Police Ten 7: 532,750 (TV2, 7:30pm – 8:00pm)
5. Close Up: 489,520 (TV ONE, 7:00pm – 7:30pm)

Most watched evening (7.30pm – 11pm)

1. Coronation Street: 536,940 (TV ONE, 7:30pm – 8:30pm)
2. Police Ten 7: 532,750 (TV2, 7:30pm – 8:00pm)
3. Rescue 1: 478,140 (TV2, 8:00pm – 8:30pm)
4. Go Girls: 411,920 (TV2, 8:35pm – 9:35pm)
5. The Forgotten: 325,050 (TV ONE, 8:30pm – 9:25pm)

Most watched daytime (9am – 5pm)

1. Studio 2: 129,810 (TV2, 4:20pm – 4:30pm)
2. Studio 2: 125,930 (TV2, 4:00pm – 4:05pm)
3. Spongebob Squarepants: 125,930 (TV2, 4:05pm – 4:20pm)
4. The Erin Simpson Show: 117,240 (TV2, 4:35pm – 5:00pm)
5. ONE News Midday: 103,120 (TV ONE, 12:00pm – 12:30pm)

Most watched on TV ONE

1. One News: 655,020 (6:00pm – 7:00pm)
2. Coronation Street: 536,940 (7:30pm – 8:30pm)
3. Close Up: 489,520 (7:00pm – 7:30pm)
4. The Forgotten: 325,050 (8:30pm – 9:25pm)
5. Ellen: 188,100 (5:00pm – 6:00pm)

Most watched on TV2

1. Shortland Street: 557,620 (7:00pm – 7:30pm)
2. Police Ten 7: 532,750 (7:30pm – 8:00pm)
3. Rescue 1: 478,140 (8:00pm – 8:30pm)
4. Go Girls: 411,920 (8:35pm – 9:35pm)
5. 20/20: 280,170 (9:35pm – 10:35pm)

Most watched on TV3

1. 3 News: 402,290 (6:00pm – 7:00pm)
2. Speed 2: 291,210 (8:30pm – 11:00pm)
3. Home and Away: 290,600 (5:30pm – 6:00pm)
4. Campbell Live: 236,930 (7:00pm – 7:30pm)
5. Survivor Heroes and Villains: 213,630 (7:30pm – 8:30pm)

Most watched on C4

1. Family Guy: 129,470 (7:00pm – 7:30pm)
2. Futurama: 97,490 (7:30pm – 8:00pm)
3. American Dad: 96,790 (8:30pm – 9:00pm)
4. South Park: 95,270 (9:00pm – 9:30pm)
5. The Cleveland Show: 90,790 (8:00pm – 8:30pm)

Most watched on PRIME

1. Prime News: 167,480 (5:30pm – 6:00pm)
2. Deal Or No Deal: 125,940 (5:00pm – 5:30pm)
3. Man vs Wild: 85,500 (7:30pm – 8:30pm)
4. Deal or No Deal: 85,300 (6:30pm – 7:00pm)
5. Snatch: 75,770 (9:30pm – 11:35pm)

Most watched on Maori TV

1. Hyundai Code: 63,260 (8:30pm – 9:30pm)
2. Hunting Aotearoa: 50,090 (9:30pm – 10:00pm)

Most watched on the BOX

1. The Simpsons: 38,780 (7:00pm – 7:30pm)

Biggest increases (previous week)

1. The Simpsons: TV3 175520 – up from 131680 (5:00pm – 5:30pm)
2. The Suite Life On Deck: TV3 77190 – up from 45500 (4:00pm – 4:05pm)
3. Entertainment Tonight: TV3 87270 – up from 55600 (4:30pm – 5:00pm)
4. Prime News: PRIME 167480 – up from 136090 (5:30pm – 6:00pm)
5. The Cleveland Show: C4 90790 – up from 60400 (8:00pm – 8:30pm)

Biggest decreases (previous week)

1. Criminal Minds: TV ONE 185300 – down from 284280 (9:25pm – 10:20pm)
2. Tonight: TV ONE 163960 – down from 237380 (10:20pm – 10:50pm)
3. Police Ten 7: TV2 532750 – down from 596890 (7:30pm – 8:00pm)
4. 3 News: TV3 402290 – down from 455150 (6:00pm – 7:00pm)
5. Rescue 1: TV2 478140 – down from 527310 (8:00pm – 8:30pm)

New

1. Speed 2: TV3 (8:30pm – 11:00pm)
2. 20/20: TV2 (9:35pm – 10:35pm)

Channel Share (All Day)

• TV ONE: 26.9%
• SKY Network: 22.5%
• TV2: 20.6%
• TV3: 17%
• PRIME: 5.4%
• C4: 3.5%
• Other TV Channels: 2.9%
• Maori TV: 1%

Source: Nielsen Television Audience Measurement, All 5+

Third season for Cleveland

The Cleveland Show has been given a third season by Fox. The Family Guy spin-off has just completed its first season in the States and had already been renewed for a second season before it debuted.

New series from E!

E! is launching a new series set in a celebrity PR agency. The show, entitled The Spin Crowd, is executive produced by reality star Kim Kardashian and is an off-shoot of a half-hour special which was aired in February that performed well for the entertainment network.

Glee books on the way

A set of authorized books based on the Glee series are set to drop later this year. The books will feature the characters from the hit series and are planned to be released in conjunction with the premiere of the second series.

Trump wants Lohan for Apprentice

Donald Trump is seeking out troubled teen actress Lindsay Lohan for his next season of The Celebrity Apprentice. Lohan is in talks with the producers of the show over the appearance but due to her heavy acting schedule nothing has been confirmed yet.

Meltdown on The Hills

The Hills cast member Kristin Cavallari has reportedly melted down while filming for the “reality” show. She claims producers tried to make her kiss a gay man in order to start a fight between her and fellow cast member Brody Jenner. This show just gets more fake by the second.

New show for Carson

Ex-Queer Eye For The Straight Guy star Carson Kressley is developing a show for Oprah Winfrey’s new American cable network OWN. The show is said to be a makeover concept which will be “devoted to self-discovery, to connecting you to your best self and the world.”

Teenage Dewey

Ever wondered what Dewey from Malcom in the Middle looks like all grown up?